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How would the Daily Mail feel about (and what would they do) if someone constantly scraped their website and redistributed the content? Perhaps a fun side proj

by jrs235 11y ago

How would the Daily Mail feel about (and what would they do) if someone constantly scraped their website and redistributed the content? Perhaps a fun side project called TheLessAdsDailyMail.com?

watty 11y ago
Copying an entire site is a bit different, if you copy one of their articles I doubt anything would happen. Maybe a sternly worded email. If you copied their entire site, used their name, and removed their ads I'm sure they'd get lawyers involved.
- madaxe_again 11y ago
  Oh, but you could have something in the footer that says "full credit for content to daisy mayall", which is on par with their citations. It's a fun idea though - seo bomb them until their bottom line aches.
- cgm616 11y ago
  I don't think (not a lawyer) that they could do anything if you put a disclaimer that it is a parody of their "creative work." That should allow use of slightly changed (LessAdsDailyMail) trademarks, and proper citations could handle the rest.
dickbasedregex 11y ago
We all know what they'd do. Respond with threats and litigation probably.
vonklaus 11y ago
That's a good idea! What if we repeatedly scraped their site and then display it to some of the users on our site. Then, we could charge them some small fee to click on the link. We could sell them some of the data around who clicked on the link, and even charge their users after we segment them. We would probably have to crawl the site a lot of times and then display their content, but essentially we would own it. Someone should try this. If it worked out, maybe you could expand to buzzfeed, techcrunch and then literally all of the sites on the internet. Why didn't anyone think of this? You would just be able to charge websites (and their users) for providing you content! edit: After thinking about it, it would probably be hard to do this. We could maybe create a standard and then show sites based on how well people listen to that, and then for the rest just see what are users look for and pick.

by jrs235 11y ago

How would the Daily Mail feel about (and what would they do) if someone constantly scraped their website and redistributed the content? Perhaps a fun side project called TheLessAdsDailyMail.com?

watty 11y ago

Copying an entire site is a bit different, if you copy one of their articles I doubt anything would happen. Maybe a sternly worded email. If you copied their entire site, used their name, and removed their ads I'm sure they'd get lawyers involved.

madaxe_again 11y ago
Oh, but you could have something in the footer that says "full credit for content to daisy mayall", which is on par with their citations. It's a fun idea though - seo bomb them until their bottom line aches.
cgm616 11y ago
I don't think (not a lawyer) that they could do anything if you put a disclaimer that it is a parody of their "creative work." That should allow use of slightly changed (LessAdsDailyMail) trademarks, and proper citations could handle the rest.

dickbasedregex 11y ago

We all know what they'd do. Respond with threats and litigation probably.

vonklaus 11y ago

That's a good idea! What if we repeatedly scraped their site and then display it to some of the users on our site. Then, we could charge them some small fee to click on the link. We could sell them some of the data around who clicked on the link, and even charge their users after we segment them. We would probably have to crawl the site a lot of times and then display their content, but essentially we would own it. Someone should try this. If it worked out, maybe you could expand to buzzfeed, techcrunch and then literally all of the sites on the internet. Why didn't anyone think of this? You would just be able to charge websites (and their users) for providing you content! edit: After thinking about it, it would probably be hard to do this. We could maybe create a standard and then show sites based on how well people listen to that, and then for the rest just see what are users look for and pick.